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Robert Junior Lockwood was one of the last blues originals, Along in age and bound to leave eventually, Robert Junior has now taken leave at 91 . Robert Junior was special. I got to meet him in the days when I came to know Sunnyland Slim, and worked on The Sunnyland Blues. In my experience, Robert was imposing on one level, with a marked sense of self, and tremendously curious and open on another level too. He was nice just to take the time to field some questions, but he was furthermore kind in taking the trouble to figure out who I was. He was wise to parse his time. My note taking and record keeping have always been scattered. In the days of putting together the Sunnyland Blues, it was really bad. I couldn’t find all the material I’d gathered during the research period, actually went through a fire along the way, which Robert understood, and I had to push to get the things done with what I had right at hand. The time that Robert shared was of a wonderful help in writing that book, b...

My first union card was from St. Louis, which is when I recorded my first records. I recorded my first records in 1940. I couldn’t get paid cause we didn’t have no damn social security card. Me and Doctor Clayton come to St Louis in 1940 and Lester Melrose recorded Doctor Clayton before [Mayo Williams] could get there then. But he didn’t want to record me. He did record me but he didn’t want to. We had a falling out right from the beginning. He recorded Doctor Clayton and I guess it was maybe then just like it is now, people always want to take advantage and they’d rather for you to be dumb than to be wise. Doctor Clayton was educated. He was far from being dumb. And he had an exceptional voice. When Melrose found out we came to record for Decca, he got in a hurry then because Mayo Williams was in New York on some business an that’s who we come to record for. Plus Mayo Williams was black. Anyway, he had got Big Bill to play on Doc’s first record and Doc wouldn’t let Bill play. That was...

Robert Junior Lockwood was very vivid. Some images of Robert: Robert was very much into finding his own sound. Robert was especially open to new sounds. Circa 1978 his band included a Fender Rhodes player. Slim sat in and played on it at the Speakeasy in Cambridge. He pronounced the Fender Rhodes: “Mickey Mouse.” Robert was very close to his wife Annie. In Robert’s dressing room, if memory serves me, she shared her concoction of Hennesys and orange juice. I got the impression that, for her, Robert had a contract rider stipulating that a bottle of Henneys congac be placed in his dressing room. Robert’s unique style in later years started with his guitar of choice .. a 12-string. Later when I heard African player like Sunny Ade and Ali Farka Toure, I hard a similar, kalimba like sound. Interesting. TBC

The Stardust closed a week before I got to Las Vegas for a conference. It's gold plated doors could not keep out the Lord's burning rain.So I stayed at Riviera. This part of the Strip for now is Lost in a Lost Land. I think one of the marquees said 'thanks for the memories' as if in homage to Woody Allen. Thinking about it: Today Jake and I in Salem overheard one witch girl tell another: We got to stick together we are all stardust. On the way to Vegas i. Morning morning November Atalantic morning Moon in haze handing off hegemony to redball sun day logan cnn sadahm hussien found guilty of crimes against humanity shiites wave once again a very pleasnt good morning from united airlines i pray my heart in pain and locate nearest exit ii. mercury in transit threat level upgraded to orange mrs steven hawkings announces in denver where the suv preacher confesses says the post to las vegas its futurama buffet pretty cheap poison and golden vomitoriums and I'm goin at the ...

And the time is up! It's good to see y'all. Q Mr. Secretary, one of the news weeklies said -- asked whether you had lost your mojo. SEC. RUMSFELD: I didn't, but I consulted someone who did. And they asked me that, and I said I don't know what it means. And they said, in 1926 or something, it had to do with jazz music. read more  |  digg story

For years, the concept of “Java-.NET interoperability” has been wrapped up in discussions of Web services and the like, but in truth there are a bunch of different ways to make Java and .NET code work together. One such approach is to host the JVM and the CLR inside the same process. read more  |  digg story

“As the Interop World Turns.” Ted Neward looks at commercial tools that provide a binary RPC-based interop approach. With such tools you follow a development process that’s (deliberately) similar to what’s done when working with the native ORPC stack (CORBA or RMI for Java, .NET Remoting for .NET). read more  |  digg story

Evidently, the moon has recently been letting slip gases, like carbon dioxide and steam, indicating that the rock's reputation as a cold, inactive orb is undeserved. SciAm read more  |  digg story

At dawning, Christ is with me, as I begin my day. Through all life’s trials He will lead me. However rough the way at midday, He is present No matter where I am. He’s the kind shepherd watching Over His straying lamb, and in the hush of twilight, When blooms and leaves are still, when birds to nest Have taken and the sun is beyond the hill, I walk the Garden pathways as drowsy night draws nigh, Alone, it seems to others, yet not alone am I. For with me walks the Savior. I feel His presence near, Assuring with His promise to free my heart from fear. No human friend or loved one, however close they be, Provides the peace and solace that Jesus does for me. - George Morrison, June 2006* *I know George Morrison, although I never met him. His daughter, Jeanne, is Cecelia’s friend, and through Jeanne Cecelia got to know George in his last days, as he suffered manfully with cancer and saying goodbye to all this. He was a life-affirming person, and Cecelia had some great tales to tell me of a c...

Ted Neward writes: Over the last five years, there ’s been a quiet revolution under way, and it’s not the dynamic language revolution, nor the REST-HTTP-SOAP revolution, nor the agile revolution, nor AJAX. It’s not about containers or dependency injection or inversion. read more  |  digg story